I am so fed up with noise pollution I could literally scream. From the moment I wake up till I fall asleep with a white noise generator -- the irony, having to generate noise to block noise sufficiently so I can sleep -- my every waking moment is saturated with it.

Other people's shouting. Other people's dogs. Other people blasting cars & motorcycles down the road with no mufflers. Other people letting trucks sit and idle outside my windows. Other people's garbage noise with a beat they mistake for "music" ...

... blasting into my home to the point where I can't even hear whatever I'm doing. At work it's constant as well. Dipshits with leaf blowers every damn day. Construction workers banging around (for now till the 3rd floor is done in the building). Interruptions constantly.

I just want some fucking quiet. Is that too much to ask? I just want QUIET. Other people's noise is like having mounds of trash constantly thrown on your lawn and then if you complain, you're the "asshole" causing trouble for everyone else.
Everyone JUST . SHUT . UP.

I propose a new strategy dealing with the whinypants crybaby assholes who constantly waste our time hopping about setting three new liar-fires every time we put one out:
We just start agreeing with them on everything. SARCASTICALLY of course. (1/4)

"Yep, you're right. I'm a Nazi. You got me. I even voted for Hitler before I was born."
"You're absolutely right -- the only reason I hate illegal foreigners invading our nation and wrecking our culture so socialists can get votes is because I'm a HUUUUGE closet racist."
(2/4)

Eventually they'll tire of their game because it won't be FUN for them anymore. They can't make us hop from one foot to the other apologizing and trying to prove them wrong with facts because we ARE, after all, the adults in the room...
(3/4)

Full text, confidential (now leaked) memorandum detailing Soros-funded campaign for mass censorship and suppression of conservative & right-wing voices, as well as direct info from the White House, with the intent to "stop Donald Trump."scribd.com/document/33753…

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I learned yesterday @indystar will no longer carry my columns. Budget cuts and whatnot. Six years, 315 columns, and lots of reader emails. Thanks for reading.

BTW, I'm not looking for sympathy. Reserve that for those people who lost their full-time jobs. I'm fine. Financial fragility is real. And for those former @indystar journalists who've recently had their jobs eliminated, I'll gladly help you through this for free. Hit me up.

My last column for the Star, which won't run now, was about Financial Fragility. I'll tweet storm it to you right now. #irony

Having survived war, the average citizen of #Syria now faces devastating economic conditions following recent tightening of sanctions on most petroleum imports into the country. Shockingly (perhaps not), most of those in opposition outside seem to be enjoying such scenes

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So I'm rewatching 300 to see if it's appropriate for use in my classroom (the point will be deconstructing its problems and stereotypes, examining how modern retellings change the past). Already seeing a lot of potentially fun problems, so here's a series of tweets on the issue

We start with Leonidas as the example of the agoge system of Spartan "education" when the firstborn son of the king is literally the only Spartan who does not go through the agoge.

Although the complex situation of Leonidas' succession means he probably didn't qualify, he also would not have been hailed as king then on his completion of the agoge

If your words toward me are gonna be some kind of order like Stop, Focus, or some other thing, please do me a favor & unfollow me right now. And yes, I am gonna point out that every time those words have been thrown my way, it has come from a white woman. Check your privilege.

If you have a problem with me pointing out the hypocrisy of #WhiteFeminism, don't follow me.
If you have a problem with me calling out racism & white privilege, don't follow me.
If you have a problem with me defending WOC, don't follow me.

If you can't be a true white woman ally, don't follow me.
If you want to police my tweets & tell me what I should or shouldn't say, don't follow me.

I am fed up with you folk being in my mentions.
I am not here for your mess.
Unfollow & block are your friends.